Word Analysis
"comes" in the Big Book
10
occurrences in 10 passages
By Chapter
Ch. 1: Bill's Story2
Ch. 2: There Is a Solution1
Ch. 3: More About Alcoholism1
Ch. 4: We Agnostics1
Ch. 6: Into Action2
Ch. 9: The Family Afterward2
Ch. 10: To Employers1
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Chapter 1: Bill's Story(2 passages)
It relieved me somewhat to learn that in alcoholics the will is amazingly weakened when it comes to combating liquor, though it often remains strong in other respects.
Chapter 1: Bill's Story · Page 7Read in PDF →
God comes to most men gradually, but His impact on me was sudden and profound.
Chapter 1: Bill's Story · Page 14Read in PDF →
Chapter 2: There Is a Solution(1 passage)
Then comes the day when he simply cannot make it and gets drunk all over again.
Chapter 2: There Is a Solution · Page 22Read in PDF →
Chapter 3: More About Alcoholism(1 passage)
But the day he comes out he races in front of a fire engine, which breaks his back.
Chapter 3: More About Alcoholism · Page 38Read in PDF →
Chapter 4: We Agnostics(1 passage)
When, however, the perfectly logical assumption is suggested that underneath the material world and life as we see it, there is an All Powerful, Guiding, Creative Intelligence, right there our perverse streak comes to the surface and we laboriously set out to convince ourselves it isn’t so.
Chapter 4: We Agnostics · Page 49Read in PDF →
Chapter 6: Into Action(2 passages)
If we haven’t the will to do this, we ask until it comes.
Chapter 6: Into Action · Page 76Read in PDF →
It just comes!
Chapter 6: Into Action · Page 85Read in PDF →
Chapter 9: The Family Afterward(2 passages)
This means trouble, unless the family watches for these tendencies in each other and comes to a friendly agreement about them.
Chapter 9: The Family Afterward · Page 131Read in PDF →
Avoid then, the deliberate manufacture of misery, but if trouble comes, cheerfully capitalize it as an opportunity to demonstrate His omnipotence.
Chapter 9: The Family Afterward · Page 133Read in PDF →
Chapter 10: To Employers(1 passage)
One instance comes to mind in which a malicious individual was always making friendly little jokes about an alcoholic’s drinking exploits.
Chapter 10: To Employers · Page 145Read in PDF →